| 1 | William T Vollmann | You Bright and Risen Angels | 
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| 2 | Rodney Hall | Kisses of the Enemy | 
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| 3 | Tom Wolfe | The Bonfire of the Vanities | 
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| 4 | Iain Banks | Espedair Street | 
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| 5 | William S Burroughs | The Western Lands | 
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| 6 | Haruki Murakami | Norwegian Wood | 
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| 7 | Daniel Pennac | The Fairy Gunmother | 
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| 8 | Scott Turow | Presumed Innocent | 
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| 9 | James Wilcox | Miss Undine's Living Room | 
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| 10 | Kurt Vonnegut | Bluebeard | 
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| 11 | Rupert Thomson | Dreams of Leaving | 
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| 12 | J G Ballard | The Day of Creation | 
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